Complimentary Blueberry Juice

Several times this summer I have come across comments or opinions relating to fertilizers (specifically Nitrogen) on various social media platforms. Usually these comments are in the realm of needing to feed the world, the high cost of the fertilizer to the farmer, or how emissions from producing nitrogen are necessary and therefore shouldn’t be part of climate solutions.

In a world where everything is a commodity, it is easy to forget that we live on a planet which is based on a very firm rule set that doesn’t care one iota about any sort of invented mumbo jumbo humans made regarding the fictional world of our economy (I mean to say there are no natural laws that govern how money behaves).

We do a great job of denying we are a part of nature. We put an enormous amount of resources into making sure that that denial is inextricably linked to the economy…so much so that any reversal or course correction is loudly opposed.

Sooner or later we need to admit as a society that every natural system – be it a forest, a prairie or a bog – does not depend on however many bags of chemical whatnot are applied to force it to go. That what makes agriculture possible is not the application of invented chemicals, and that the success or failure of agriculture is not based on the price of said chemicals.

There has been no more urgent time to understand in greater detail the intelligence of plants, and how they communicate with their surroundings to obtain what they need to grow.

Graham